The Blood of Emmett Till

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The Blood of Emmett TillbyTimothy B. Tyson

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The Blood of Emmett Till by
Timothy B. Tyson “unfolds
like a movie” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of
new evidence, including a shocking admission of Till’s innocence from the woman
in whose name he was killed. In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta
lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part
of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision
that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later,
Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a
city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called
themselves “the Emmett Till generation” launched sit-in campaigns that turned
the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till’s lynching became one
of the most notorious hate crime in American history.